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James Ahnassay seeks community prosperity through education
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Dene Tha chief focuses on independence and self-sufficiency
At a clearing just outside Hay-Zama Lakes Wildland Park, a marshy patch of remote, northwestern Alberta, Chief James Ahnassay parks his late-model SUV and says, "This is where I was born."
Decommissioned power poles lean haphazardly in a line leading away from the vehicle. Along their path is a waist-high knoll roughly marking the location of the nursing station that in the fall of 1957 welcomed Ahnassay as the fourth of nine siblings.
There's no trace of the building now, just as there's nothing left of the rest of Habay, the community that occupied this part of the Hay Lake Indian Reserve, one of seven in the area belonging to the Dene Tha' First Nation.
Ahnassay, a calm, soft-spoken man now serving his fourth term as the band's chief, remembers the place well. But he's not nostalgic about it. He describes the past with a bare-bones practicality that seems to govern his approach to life.
Besides the nursing station, houses lined the banks of the Hay River, and there was a church, a Hudson's Bay Company trading post and a school. By the time he was school-aged, a residential school had opened in what was then known as Assumption, the new community a few kilometres south.
He remembers that school, too.
When floods finally forced the majority of Habay's residents out of these lowlands, Ahnassay's father took a chance on a new life in Assumption, moving his family – just five children then – by canoe in 1962. Ahnassay attended classes at the Roman Catholic-run Our Lady of Assumption from 1964 to 1968.
Other than to refer to himself as a "survivor of residential schools," he doesn't like to talk about that time with just anyone.
He starts the engine and heads back to what he and every other Dene Tha' now call Chateh – their name, taken from an early 20th century chief, for what's still on the maps as Assumption, a label charged with unsettling memories.
Ahnassay has a schedule to keep, ending the tour of the park. A few hundred people, mostly aboriginal, have gathered in Chateh for the First Nation's annual cultural and educational assembly.
Besides the workshops, sessions, drumming and dancing, teams' abilities to bluff and guess are being tested in a hand games tournament, a traditional contest. Ahnassay is expected as a participant.
More importantly, he's to preside over the annual graduation ceremony, honouring the educational achievements of any Dene Tha' with a new certificate to frame. This year the event celebrates a record 52 graduates.
Congratulate him and his community for this and the broad-shouldered, compact man breaks momentarily with the decorum of political life and beams with pride and gratitude.
Faced with community issues like substance abuse, 80 per cent unemployment and slumping income from diminishing local oil and gas, Ahnassay is seeking to set the Dene Tha' on the path to prosperity.
Regardless of any scars left by a bygone school system, he's convinced innovative education tailored to aboriginal needs is the key to young people's success, and therefore that of the community he leads.
There are jobs here aboriginals could fill, in health care, law, the trades, even in a new venture he's promoting in that rugged parkland around Habay. "Two million dollars in salary," says Ahnassay with certainty, "up for grabs."
He alternates between seeing this prize as "a pot of gold" and as basic self-reliance. Either way, the 2009 NAIT Alumni Award of Distinction (and 2013 honorary degree recipient) recipient believes there's only one way for youth to seize the opportunity – and, here in particular, it's not easy. "To be independent," says the chief, "they have to realize they must have an education."
The value of education
Ahnassay learned that early in his career. "While I was in high school," he says, "all we ever concentrated on was, What's the easiest way to get through this?"
As a result, when he started working as a fire prevention officer trainee in the engineering department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada in 1979, he soon realized his math and science skills were lacking.
"Everyone around me was a technician of some sort, so that inspired me to shoot for something that was going to promote me in the department."
No doubt, that attitude is one reason he was chosen as chief in 1993 in the first-ever Dene Tha' election by secret ballot (apart from losing the 2001 vote, he's held office ever since).
But in those early days of his career it also pushed him, despite the demands of having a young family, to upgrade by correspondence, as well as in High Level and Grande Prairie. He completed high school physics, chemistry and even calculus, positioning himself to enter NAIT's Civil Engineering Technology program, which he finished in 1988.
It was tough, he recalls, but necessary to break from the local cycle of hardship and to access opportunities being enjoyed elsewhere in Alberta.
The end of the fur trade significantly reduced a traditional source of income, explains Ahnassay, while at the same time the separation imposed by residential schools weakened families. Alcohol only complicated attempts at self-reliance.
"With the lack of education, we were basically isolated even more."
Chateh opened a new community school in 2001 within sight of the spot of the residential school, long since torn down.
It's as modern as any facility currently being built in Alberta, but nonetheless embodies tradition and history. Artifacts like the ancient canoes on display in the library serve as symbols of identity for approximately 160 kindergarten to Grade 10 students.
The decor suits the administration's approach to education. "It's up to us to fit with the kids," says principal Lori Aliche. "We see what they need and we make the programs fit the need."
With the proportion of aboriginals who don't complete high school roughly double that of non-aboriginals, Ahnassay's band council has allowed the school a generous measure of academic freedom to find ways to keep older students engaged.
Ahnassay in particular, Aliche adds, "is supportive. He understands the need for education."
Over the past year, the school has experimented with work experience.
Older students spend afternoons as either teacher assistants, serving as role models for youngsters, or working with other emerging Chateh role models: Dene Tha' contractors. Students shadow journeymen tradespeople and pick up real-world skills, modest pay and, maybe most importantly, self-esteem.
But there's a catch: If they don't attend morning classes, they don't work. About one in three follows through – that's considered a success.
In a school that not long ago was teaching Grade 5 students how to read, "We're producing real Grade 9 grads," says Aliche, proudly.
Identifying opportunities
At Chateh's event grounds, just down the gravel road from the school, past new multiplex homes and aging bungalows on acreage lots, the assembly resembles a summer festival.
Men test their accuracy at a hatchet-throwing competition, kids buy candy and bannock burgers from concession tents, hand games drummers pound and sing, doing their best to distract opponents.
At the centre of all the activity is a wide, corral-like arena, the site of the graduation ceremony. A fire gently smolders at its centre. Family and friends sit ready with cameras.
Ahnassay, dressed in black despite the heat of the day, stands onstage with a microphone, acknowledging not just those Grade 9 students (most of them preparing to leave Chateh and their families for high school in Grande Prairie, High Level and Edmonton), but high school and post-secondary achievers with new degrees, certificates and diplomas.
First, he addresses the crowd in Dene, a breathy language spiked with hard consonance. When he switches to English, the event assumes the spirit of a rally.
"The students who are finishing their education are role models," says Ahnassay, also acknowledged today for completing NAIT's Project Management program last year. "We as the Dene Tha' people are just as capable of going through these different levels of education."
For now though, reality speaks to little more than the community's potential. "Because we lack the capacity in good education," he says, frankly, "all the jobs are being taken by those who are educated." In other words, more often than not, by those other than the Dene Tha'.
Existing jobs are an obvious and attainable starting point. Ahnassay is proof of that.
Al MacBride, a long-retired Indian and Northern Affairs Canada senior regional fire and safety officer, recalls meeting the chief in Chateh in the late 1970s. After inspecting the community fire hall and truck, MacBride offered the fire prevention officer trainee job to the young Dene Tha'.
"He was a good listener," he says. "He was very pleasant and you need a person like that to pull volunteers."
As Ahnassay travelled to various First Nations to teach fire safety, it was clear MacBride had chosen well.
Whether he was addressing classrooms or communities, "They liked James," says MacBride. "He'd lecture and they'd listen. And he was well-respected around different reserves in Alberta, from the south right to the north."
Today, Ahnassay and 1,200 residents of Chateh (and 800 others spread between the nearby villages of Meander River and the chief's hometown of Bushe River) see Dene Tha' being their own firefighters, health-care professionals, teachers, lawyers, social workers and so on.
And while the chief keeps an eye on jobs in nearby Rainbow Lake and Zama oil and gas fields, factors including economic and environmental sustainability have pushed him to explore other opportunities.
"Being a leader from here, part of my job is to promote access to different activities to derive income from," Ahnassay said early in the day.
One of those brings him full-circle: Hay-Zama Lakes Wildland Park, the 486-square-kilometre network of lakes, ponds and rivers just northwest of Chateh.
A herd of wood bison roams here, roughly 570-strong after being relocated from Elk Island National Park more than two decades ago, and which last year attracted around 100 big-game hunters in need of local guides and accommodations.
Also, the area lies along bird migratory paths, suggesting a major ecotourism venture to replace existing oil and gas activity once a moratorium takes effect in the area in 2017.
Out of a desire to protect the lakes and convinced of a future appetite for remote wilderness experiences, Ahnassay was instrumental in negotiating the end of extraction.
"We're hoping that nothing gets started ever again," he says. "It shouldn't have happened in the first place."
Like the elders before him
That sentiment – vaguely resentful and entirely steadfast – might cause wonder regarding Ahnassay's future outlook.
True, barring new discoveries or extraction methods, local oil and gas revenues are headed for exhaustion.
But regarding the alternative of ecotourism, the remoteness of the area – more than 900 kilometres northwest of Edmonton – could prove as much obstacle as draw for the adventurous traveller, let alone the casual naturalist in need of infrastructure yet to be built.
Furthermore, a $25-million settlement won from the federal government in 2007 for failure to consult the Dene Tha' over the local impact of the Mackenzie Valley pipeline does nothing to guarantee the area will remain pristine enough to be marketed as such.
Unless he's hedging a bet that the long-delayed natural gas project remains mired in bureaucracy, that particular success seems, on the surface, contradictory.
Whatever the future brings, supporters remain convinced Ahnassay will raise the fortunes of his community.
Strater Crowfoot has worked alongside Ahnassay since the 1990s, when the former was chief of southern Alberta's Siksika Nation; today, that relationship continues with Ahnassay serving as a member of the co-management board of Indian Oil and Gas Canada, of which Crowfoot is executive director and CEO.
In Ahnassay, he sees a pragmatism he associates with revered generations of the past.
"In the old way, the elders really understood life as a whole. They respected nature and they respected people. They had a good sense of where they fit into the overall scope of the world," says Crowfoot.
"I see James as that kind of person. He's not caught up in the role of chief in terms of title, but in the role in terms of how to help people."
Crowfoot sees Ahnassay's focus on education in the same light. "Before contact, people prepared their communities, their families so they could live in the environment they were in.
"They had to attain certain skills: trapping, hunting, understanding the environment – understanding everything about their world so that they could survive and progress and benefit.
"James sees that today. The world today is knowledge, understanding, education; he's saying these are the new skills that his people need to be able to flourish in the environment they're in today."
By celebrating education and facilitating it inside and outside of the school (he put his band council and managers through the same project leadership training he took), Ahnassay insists, "We are doing something different."
He's convinced he's providing the means for independence to his own generation and, maybe more importantly, to an upcoming one. The youth, after all, already have the advantage.
The end of the residential school system offers the chance for stronger, united families. They have a better grasp of English than previous generations. And – if the growing popularity of hand games is any indication – a renaissance in aboriginal culture has emerged to help ground them.
After the graduation ceremony, the chief has little time to talk. The hand games have started again and he's being called to join his team for its turn in the tournament.
The drumming and the singing start and, sitting with his legs folded beneath him, Ahnassay watches members of the opposing team as they sway to the rhythm of the music and shuffle coins between hands concealed beneath a tarp.
The most cursory explanation of the contest is to call it a guessing game.
One team hides; the captain of other team tries to find. But it's not just a game of chance. A good guesser looks for signs, subtleties of expression or movement, and uses what information he can glean to predict a positive outcome.
So, like any good captain, Ahnassay will watch carefully, anticipate the future based on what's before him today, and choose as best he can.
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This Week's Wacky Wednesday: Driver Sues Families Of Victims?
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Driver Sues Families of Victims
Driver Sues Families of Victims He Killed
Christmas should be a time of happiness and joy, but the world can be a cruel place. In 2007, two families – McWilliams and Bassi – were on their way to a relative's home for a nice Christmas dinner. However, they did not make it. When they stopped at a red light, a truck behind them plowed into the rear of their vehicle, not even attempting to slow down. The truck, driven by David Belniak, was going 86 miles per hour when he hit them. This caused three of the people in the vehicle ahead to be killed, and one received serious injuries.
Belniak was arrested and later pleaded guilty to three counts of DUI manslaughter. It was discovered that he not only had alcohol in his system, but also cocaine and Xanax when the crash occurred. His sentence was 12 years in prison. This is a sad but all too common type of accident.
Suit, Countersuit
Naturally, the families of those who were killed and injured in the crash decided they should file a civil suit against Belniak. However, after they filed their suit, he turned around and countersued them. In his countersuit, he claimed that the accident was not his fault, but was caused by the person who was driving the vehicle that he hit. He said that the driver, Ray McWilliams, was under the influence of medication when the crash happened, and that he had changed lanes abruptly, which caused Belniak to hit the vehicle.
Keep in mind that the car of the deceased was stopped at a red light when the accident happened. Even if they had changed lanes, Belniak was going at a speed where he could not have stopped, and he would have blown through the red light even if he had not hit the back of their vehicle.
Belniak's lawsuit said that he wanted the family of the victims to pay for the pain and suffering he endured, as well as the medical anguish and his medical bills. In total, he wanted over $15,000 in damages.
The suit eventually went to a jury, who had the good sense to dismiss the lawsuit. In addition, they ordered him to pay the families of the victims to the tune of $140,000. It's a wonder how Belniak ever thought he might be able to win his countersuit given the circumstances of the case. While there is nothing that can bring back their lost family members, at least they weren't saddled with the burden of paying the man who caused their deaths.
There are many people who do not like to take responsibility for their actions, and they often end up turning into these strange and weird lawsuits that sometimes get a bit further than they should. Fortunately, there tend to be enough people who are part of juries or who are judges who can see these types of frivolous lawsuits for what they are and put an end to them.

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It took me a while to think of something to write about for this one, because I haven't really read that many supernatural books. Out of the incredibly short shortlist I had in my head, I eventually settled on Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman . This was simply because American Gods seems just a bit too fantastical to be counted as supernatural, but Neverwhere gets that balance of real world and magical just right.
The books follows the trials and tribulations of young office worker Richard Mayhew, who accidentally finds himself stuck in the world of London Below, a sprawling subterranean city filled with monsters and killers and angels. Teaming together with the sneaky Marquis de Carabas, the magical Door and the deadly Hunter, Richard sets out trying to find his way back to where he belongs, the "real" world.
This motley crew are all brilliant characters who stick with you long after the book is finished. But it is London Below that is the real star of this novel, brilliantly thought-out and wonderfully described by Gaiman. It is both hauntingly beautiful and also just plain haunting, and Gaiman's love for the real city of London shines through in the writing. But this book is so much more than a supernatural love letter to a city. It is a testament to the imagination and to the hidden yet beautiful parts of life that we so easily overlook.
The first time I read Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire – I was captivated by the world she had created.
The characters of Lestat, Lois and friends leapt from the page. Their adventures and quarrels staying with me evermore. It's a truly great vampire novel, instead of having your bog standard monster vampires that are simply out for blood, the vampires in this book still had human feelings. Their emotions were still intact.
Yes they had immortality and needed blood to live – yet they tackled that in their own ways. Some were happy to hunt, whilst others would rather feast on the blood of rats. It's an amazing story, one that every body should read at least once. Then you need to read the rest of the Vampire Chronicles ….
Before the iconic Stanley Kubrick film, there was the novel. The Shining by Stephen King is one of the author's earliest works and follows the Torrance family as they take up residence at the Overlook Hotel to oversee its care during the harsh, out-of-season weather. A tale of psychic awakenings and madness, it's not a light read by any standard.
I suppose The Shining was the tipping point in terms of King's style, where he really began to get into describing anything and everything the characters were in, doing and thinking. At the same time, this reach towards realism in the novel always makes the supernatural elements that more breathtaking and frightening – the way normality begins to show some very jagged cracks, but believable, when little Danny begins to see things. This is the kind of supernatural novel that allows you to suspend your disbelief, which is obviously a very good thing.
It took me a while to come up with a book this week. Supernatural fiction just isn't something I have any interest in. The only one I could even remember reading was The Lovely Bones , and I pretty much hated it. I thought I may have to sit this one out – but then I remembered Neil Gaiman.
Gaiman's stories are… different. While definitely supernatural, they construct such vivid, alien worlds that they often brush shoulders with fantasy, a genre I'm much more at home with. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman is no exception, using West African myths to create a tale of animal spirits, mysterious powers, demonic possession, and mother-in-law jokes.
While all his books are sharp and witty, this is the only Gaiman solo-act that I'd call a comedy. Fat Charlie (who isn't fat) finds his life in meltdown when, following the death of his dad, a mysterious stranger turns up claiming to be his brother. Not a long-lost brother or anything, just a twin brother that Fat Charlie forgot he had. Oh, and their father was a god. And a kind of demented supernatural buddy-comedy spirals out from there.
Which isn't to say it's not dark. It can get downright scary – especially whenever there's birds involved. But if supernatural drama or horror isn't your thing, and you'd prefer some levity with your unholy powers, you should definitely try Gaiman's Anansi Boys . Otherwise, if you do want drama and horror, try anything else he's ever written!
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events
 September 19 – Imprisoned in the Tower of London on the eve of being hanged, drawn and quartered for his part in the Babington Plot, English poet Chidiock Tichborne writes his Elegy ("My prime of youth is but a frost of cares").
 September 22 – Battle of Zutphen: English poet, critic, courtier and soldier Sir Philip Sidney is fatally wounded.

Works published

England
 Thomas Churchyard, The Epitaph of Sir Phillip Sidney (Sidney was fatally wounded at the Battle of Zutphen, dying on October 17, 1586)
 Thomas Deloney:
 The Lamentation of Beckles, a ballad
 A Most Joyfull Songe, a ballad
 William Warner, Albions England; or, Historicall Map of the Same Island (see also second edition [six books] 1589, third edition [nine books] 1592, fourth edition [12 books] 1596, fifth edition [13 books, with Epitome] 1602, A Continuance of Albions England [books 14–16] 1606)
 Geoffrey Whitney, A Choice of Emblemes and Other Devises, influential emblem book

Other
 Jan Kochanowski, Piesni ("Songs"), Poland
 Francesco Patrizi, Della poetica la deca disputation, popularly known as the Deca ammirabile, Italian criticism
 Catherine Des Roches, also known as "Catherine Fradonnet", and her mother, Madeleine Des Roches, Les missives de Mesdames des Roches ... (in prose and verse), Paris: Abel L'Angelier; France

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 January 20 – Johann Hermann Schein born (died 1630), German composer
 April 12 (baptised) – John Ford (died c. 1639), English playwright and poet
 August 17 – Johannes Valentinus Andreae born (died 1654), German theologian
 Banarasidas (died 1643), Mughal Indian businessman and poet
 Dirk Rafaelsz Camphuysen (died 1627), Dutch painter, poet and theologian
 Approximate date – Giles Fletcher (died 1623), English poet chiefly known for the allegorical poem Christ's Victory and Triumph

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 August 1 – Richard Maitland (born 1496), Scottish poet and lawyer
 September 20 – Chidiock Tichborne (born 1558), English conspirator and poet (executed)
 October 17 – Sir Philip Sidney (born 1554), English poet, courtier and soldier (died of wounds)
 Also:
 Birbal, real name: Maheshdas Bhat (born 1528), Indian poet, wit and Grand Vizier of the Mughal court of Emperor Akbar
 Ulpian Fulwell, English
 Lorenzo Gambara (born c. 1496), Italian, Latin-language poet
Sur (born 1479), Indian, Hindu devotional poet

See also

 16th century in poetry
 16th century in literature
 Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
 Elizabethan literature
 French Renaissance literature
 Renaissance literature
 Spanish Renaissance literature
 University Wits

Notes

16th-century poetry
Poetry

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1. My Granny, the "Star"
When my maternal grandmother was young, she was a "star" in an area several miles around where we lived. (I grew up living in the countryside.) She was a bit like Maggie Cheung is nowadays. But Maggie Cheung is nothing more than an actress in the movies, and my granny was a contract farm laborer.
She stood out from all the others in that area. She was a little over a meter and a half (5') tall, but, as she told me in her later years, she could harvest a mile-long strip of grain from one end to the other without having to straighten up even once.
At the time, since granny was a "star", all the landlords around us held her in high regard. I heard that they were always happy to sign a contract with her. Whatever landlord's home she went to, they would always make sure that the male children knew her name. When I was little, I noticed that granny had a bunch of godsons and they were all landlords. Wherever she went there was someone calling her "mum". So, finally, when the struggle against landlords started, she didn't agree with it. She said that landlords were particularly good. How can they be bad if their sons call me "mum" when they see me?
During the "Great Cultural Revolution", when they put on the revolutionary opera "The White Haired Girl", she asked where those events had happened. At the time I didn't know either, and said it might have been Hebei Province. She said if the landlords in Hebei were bad, that didn't prove that the landlords Henan were bad.
In 1992, two Germans came to granny's home to have a look around, and I came with them. They had a conversation with her that they felt was especially good.
One of the two was exceptionally tall and could speak Chinese. The other was quite short and could not.
Granny asked the tall one, "Where do you live?"
"I live in northern Germany," he said.
Then she asked the short one, "And how about you?"
"I live in the south of Germany."
Granny asked: "Well, how did you come to know each other?"
The Germans seemed rather disconcerted at this. Yes, how did we come to know each other? I feel this is one of the fundamental problems in the world.
They thought it over for a long time before the tall one said, humorously, "A market."
Granny understood. Ah, they met at a market.
She asked, "Did you have a 'Great Cultural Revolution' in Germany?" The Germans were disconcerted once again.
Granny was immediately anxious. "Chairman Mao said to make a 'Great Cultural Revolution', so why didn't you do it?" The tall one thought it over for a while, but then gave a very satisfactory answer. He said the Germans are stupid, that most of them don't know any Chinese, and so they didn't understand what Chairman Mao had said.
Then Granny asked, "Well, how many shares of land are you allotted per person in Germany?"
Although the tall one could speak Chinese, he wasn't very precise about the details. He got "shares" confused with the word "mu" [about a fifteenth of an acre]. He said, "Eight shares." When granny heard that, she snorted and stood up from her chair. Leaning on her cane, she walked all around the fellow and said, "Such a big man, I don't think you could get enough to eat [from such a small plot]."
The guy knew he had enough food and realized his mistake. "Granny, I was wrong," he corrected himself. "It's eight mu."
Granny got anxious again. She turned around on her crutches and said, "Well, your wife must have to work her fingers to the bone."
My hometown is in the Yimeng Mountain region of Fei County [in Shandong Province]. A common side dish prevalent here, called "tofu bits" (or "bean foam" in farming communities in the eastern part of the county), is a unique local specialty. Even the sound of its name drips with local flavor. In the past, though, far from being unique, it was a bit of home cooking commonly seen on our tables.
When I was a child, the country was mired in a period when material goods were relatively scarce. People in the agricultural areas here basically ate tofu bits at every meal. They only saw meat or fish at fancy New Year festivities. That's why I have such deep and special feelings about tofu bits.
The ingredients for making tofu bits are entirely commonplace. There's cabbage, celery leaves, lettuce, radish stems, mustard sprouts, yam and potato seedlings, kidney beans, beans, elm seeds, acacia flowers and all kinds of wild herbs. Even cotton seeds are OK. You might say that, in general, tofu bits can be made from almost anything edible. In those difficult times, it was an outright gift of nature that nourished the rural areas with crystalline brilliance through what were otherwise dismal days.
After picking and cleaning the cabbage and other veggies, wash them well and put them in a basket. Bring water to a boil in a wok. Pour in the veggies and scald them for a few seconds, then remove with a strainer and put them in cold water until they're cool enough not to burn you. You can then take them out and roll them into tight balls to squeeze out the water. Put the balls on a chopping board and mince with a paring knife. Pour the minced veggies into the wok and add chilled sweet mountain spring water. Sprinkle on a layer of golden soybean flour and add salt blocks to taste (in those days we didn't have granulated salt in the countryside). Heat to a boil. Remove the lid from the wok and stir the veggies and the flour until evenly mixed. Put the lid back on and simmer for five or six minutes, and this simple and easy mixture will have become a delicacy.
When a platter full of piping hot tofu bits was brought to the table, an enticing aroma would fill the air. We'd sit down, dish some onto a pancake and roll it up with some chilies and pickled veggies. We'd clutch it in our hands and bite off all we could chew. We'd chew and chew, and that sweet, sweet taste was so satisfying that we couldn't help wanting another as soon as we finished one. We'd eat until we'd rub our bulging bellies and our foreheads would be covered by a layer of fine, sparkling beads of sweat, and our hearts, which hadn't been able to find a home because of hunger or fatigue, would sink docilely back into our guts. With our hunger "staved off" by the tofu bits, our poor home would fill with songs and laughter, and our day would seem to be wrapped in a layer of sweet candy.
Tofu bits, which had gradually faded from the lives of the local people, are now quietly returning to their tables. This crude, fibrous foodstuff is generally categorized as a pure and natural green food. It is conducive to health when consumed regularly, and that's the main reason tofu bits are coming back.
Whenever I think of this folk ditty, images from back then of us gorging ourselves, wolfing down tofu bits, float through my mind, the aroma of tofu bits makes my stomach giddy, and my spirit is consoled and satisfied.
When I was young, getting to go out to eat rice noodles was something I really enjoyed. The feeling was no less than a soccer fan watching a World Cup match or a basketball fan watching an NBA game.
There was a grain shop at the end of Jila Street and a noodle house in the middle, both run by a state-owned food and beverage company. My father would go buy rice first thing when got he paid – we wouldn't starve if we had rice. The first time he went to buy rice, we three brothers didn't know what the big deal was, but after going along with him only once, from then on we just had to go with him every time. It was because, after getting the rice, Father would go to the noodle house and trade raw rice for some rice noodles to eat. Out of long habit, when he got to the noodle house, he would pick up the small scoop that was kept on the counter and, opening the bag of rice, use it to measure out two cups of rice, which he would then pour into a big jar off to one side. Then, handing over just a tiny bit of money, he would get four tickets to exchange for bowls of rice noodle soup. The four of us would sit at a square table waiting for the noodles to be served. We got very excited when the bowls were put on the table at last, and reached out for them. Father would holler, "Don't rush, don't rush." – But there was no way we could mind him, we'd grab the bowls and eat. Truth is, they were just plain rice noodles flavored with soy sauce, but I still thought they were tasty. I'd down the whole bowl, soup and all. A few times my older brother was off somewhere playing by himself and didn't go with us. While we were eating we'd trash him for wanting to play all the time, and laugh at him for missing the food. Even today I can't forget the "flavor" of those rice noodles.
A professor was lecturing in class about "Articles of the WTO", and the students were all drowsy. To wake them up, the professor resorted to his stock-in-trade; he told them a story.
A Chinese student attending school in Japan, like other international students, had an after-school job washing dishes in a Japanese restaurant to earn money for tuition. Japan's restaurant industry has an unwritten rule that a restaurant's dishes must be washed at least seven times. Because dish washers are paid by the number of dishes washed, this student would get tired out even though he wasn't making much money.
And so one day he made up his mind that, from then on, he would wash each dish two fewer times. Sure enough, his efficiency on the job showed a marked increase. His boss thought highly of him and his paychecks naturally also increased rapidly.
Some Japanese students were also washing dishes there to earn money for tuition. They asked our student what techniques he used to be able to wash so many dishes. He told them, with complete candor, "Look, what difference does it make if you wash the dishes five times instead of seven? Washing two less times, is all." The Japanese students all said "yes, yes," but gradually started avoiding him.
The Japanese make two presumptions about people: one, that you're innocent of any wrongdoing; and two, that you're honest. The restaurant owner therefore only spot-checked occasionally to see whether the dishes had been washed clean.
During one check, the boss used a special litmus paper and found that the dishes were not clean enough. When questioned about it, our student had a plausible explanation: "Doesn't washing five times keep the dishes just as clean as seven times?"
"You're a dishonest person," the boss replied coolly. "Please leave."
The student's anger grew as he walked out onto the street. He shook his fist at the Japanese restaurant and shouted, "Down with Japanese imperialism!"
Despite the slogan, our student still had to make a living. He went to another restaurant in the area in response to a help-wanted ad. The boss looked him up and down and said, "You're that Chinese student who only washes the dishes five times, aren't you? I'm sorry, we're not hiring!" Another restaurant, and then another…. He repeatedly ran into a wall.
Not only that, before long his landlord asked him to move out. The reason was that his "reputation" was having an adverse impact on the jobs of other residents (most of whom were also international students).
In desperation, our student packed up and moved to another city to get a fresh start. With bitter hatred, he warned other Chinese students planning on coming to school in Japan: "If you wash dishes in Japan, make sure you wash them seven times!"
"And that's how the WTO's rules are!" the professor yelled at us reprovingly. We straightened up right away, all thought of sleeping gone.
My name is Roberta Carraro, I am a Venetian artist, and I have recently had the great pleasure to create a cat mask for Mr Yaodong Chen [and others] as a customized gift from an Italian friend of theirs.
The creation of this mask made me think of the unique, close relationship between China and Venice dating back to Marco Polo's times (second half of the 13th century), and to my surprise I found out that Liuzhou used to be the ancient gateway to Cathay and the end of the Silk Road along which Marco Polo travelled on his way to see the Great Khan. What an amazing coincidence!!! It is well-known that Marco Polo was very fond of Chinese customs and culture, and in his Description of the World he expressed his deep admiration for China's thriving prosperity and advanced civilization and aroused a keen interest in the Middle Kingdom among Europeans. He said that a very sophisticated economic system had given birth to breakthrough inventions and exceptional technologies, and since then China's influence has remained alive in Europe and Italy throughout the centuries. Even nowadays Venice has a special, enchanting Oriental atmosphere which can remind us of Chinese cities like Suzhou, visited by Marco Polo in 1276.
Venice is certainly a city of magic with its maze of narrow streets, hundreds of bridges and dozens of canals linking its magnificent palaces and churches, and this magic was my original source of inspiration.
When I was a little child, I was really fond of creating any kind of objects by using a wide range of materials, and later on at primary and middle schools drawing was my favourite subject and my works were enthusiasticallypraised by my teachers. For this reason, I was encouraged to pursue art studies to develop my full potential and enrolled in the Venice Academy of Fine Arts where I learned different painting techniques. Through the five-year course I grew well aware of my artistic skills and understood what career was right for me.
After leaving the Academy I had the chance to work in a number of artists' studios, and in 1996 I started working in an atelier where typical Venetian papier mâché masks (also called paper mache masks) were designed, handmade and decorated in different colours and styles. There I discovered a new world and a new passion. By mere coincidence, the first documents concerning the use of masks in Venice go back to the 13th century, namely Marco Polo's times. In those days mask-makers belonged to the fringe of painters and were helped in their task by sign-painters who drew faces on plaster in a wide range of shapes and paid extreme attention to details.
They all said she was crazy. She was an old woman who lived in an out-of-the-way village in England, passing the days in loneliness. The neighbors had heard she used to support herself by teaching dance, or something like that, but she was too old now, so old that no one could imagine her dancing. But she insisted that she had been an opera star, and had been famous for a time, back in the day.
The hardest thing to believe was, she claimed that a celebrated author had asked for her hand in marriage. A busybody asked her, if that was so, how come she'd spent her life alone. A shadow fell across her face, and she started to mutter something, but I stopped her.
When the word got around, almost no one believed her. An author renowned throughout the world and an old lady in the countryside, how could anything ever have happened between them?
She died a few years later, and a few years after that the author's diary got published. It let the world know about the first and only love of his life.
At the time he was still a lowly public servant and had just started creative writing. If he happened to earn a small fee for a manuscript and was feeling extravagant, he would go to the theater to take in a performance. From a faraway corner in the back row he would watch the female lead come quickly out on stage, wearing a white angel's suit and a sweet smile, and it sent his spirit soaring.
Later he gradually made a name for himself and the theater owner gave him a contract to write a script. She, the one he loved, would be the leading lady. He poured his whole lifetime of love into that script, and it was this play that made her an overnight sensation. She was thankful to him, sending him tickets for every performance, and the two became close friends. Eventually he got up the courage to ask her to get married, but she never replied. Thereafter the two never mentioned it, as though it hadn't happened at all.
He wrote in his biography: "When the heavy curtain went up again, 10 days later, he was still 45 years old. But he was already an old man, and getting older, and that's the way it would be." And the girl of his dreams, after several years, was this old country lady.
The ridiculousness and embarrassments of life lay in these kinds of ups and downs. The vicissitudes of fate are just like waves. Can you always ask yourself anew, before every decision, whether you can really afford such a costly demand on your time?
Translated from here. Also available here.
Someone stole a manhole cover from the middle of the street. All the vehicles driving there had to make a detour around the hole. People complained to the authorities several times but they never saw a new cover. Then some do-gooder took an old sofa and put it over the hole. It was somewhat effective as a warning.
One day the people noticed that a new cover had finally replaced the old one. It seems there had been an accident there the previous evening. One person died and two were injured.
A pedestrian walkway was put between the two lanes of a newly constructed road, and landscaped with multi-colored floral displays. Everyone walking along it would relax and enjoy the peaceful scenery. However, halfway along the walkway, long rows of planter boxes closed off by concrete were added, so whenever people walked there, they had to take a detour into the street to get around. The local citizenry had complained to the authorities about this many times, and requested removal of any planters that influenced strolling as soon as possible. For a long time, though, the planter boxes persisted in blocking the middle of the pedestrian walkway.
Then all of a sudden, overnight, those planter boxes were removed and the walkway was back to its original appearance. It turned out that a pedestrian had been hit and killed there that very evening when he detoured into the street.
[Sighted] pedestrians knew to turn under the bridge, but as for blind people [who might continue walking straight toward the river], wasn't that just a road to death? People complained to the authorities many times, but the blind path stubbornly remained the way it was.
One day the people discovered that, all of a sudden, a bunch of government workers had appeared on the sidewalk. They were breaking up the blind path tiles one by one and replacing them all with ordinary tiles. Everyone knew that an elderly blind person who had been walking there the previous day had fallen into the river and drowned.
Students once gave me a bouquet of fresh flowers: lilies, carnations, and several others I don't know the names of. These flowers, some were in full bloom and some were buds. They were lithe and slender, and all the colors of the rainbow; very beautiful.
I put them in clean water to keep them fresh and placed them in a corner of the living room. They did brighten the room, but who would have thought that when my daughter came in after school she'd exclaim, "What's that smell? It's really strong and tickles my nose!" She sneezed twice just after she spoke. I'd only noticed how the flowers looked and had gotten used to the smell, so I hadn't felt there was anything wrong. When my daughter mentioned it I leaned closer to the flowers and sniffed. Yes, indeed, the aroma was too strong. I don't know which of the flowers it was, but it was a sweet scent, and a sugary taste irritated my throat as soon as it went in my nose, a quite unpleasant smell. I had to move the flowers into the den. When my husband went in there he immediately yelled for me to come in and, pinching his nose and pointing to the bouquet: "Throw them out right now! Flowers should have a light aroma, but yours have a heavy stink!" Those flowers, the smell really was too much.
I hadn't expected that such a beautiful bouquet would be so unwelcome. Tender and gorgeous flowers, I felt they were like a beautiful girl who'd been abused and banished to limbo. It was heart breaking. I had to move them out into the hallway where there was a large, well aired space. When I opened the window the flowers greeted the breeze with a little dance. The hall had never been decorated and was still gray and dusty, and the flowers looked absolutely lovely against that background. The strange thing was, the aroma that had been too strong before seemed lighter and more appropriate in such a relatively large, open space.
These flowers, before long they'd become a scenic point in our building. People really liked them. A five-year-old girl who lived upstairs said to her mom, in her baby's voice: "Mama, they smell so nice!" She had her eyes closed as she said it, pleasurably intoxicated by the aroma of the flowers. And an old lady who lived on the fifth floor often changed the flowers' water. It went like that for a week, and the bouquet was still as fresh and full as before. It turned out that the buds came into bloom one after the other in turn. All the residents of our building knew we had these flowers blooming in the hallway, and they liked it very much.
I thought: The same bouquet in a different location, with such a marked difference in the way people see it. How about people? Aren't they the same? I couldn't help thinking of one of my students, an artistic genius. He came home after finishing studies in Beijing, thinking to develop his talents in a small town, but he hit brick wall after brick wall and never achieved his ambition. He got out of here as fast as he could and went to the provincial capital. Before long he'd broken out of his slump and had some success.
Sometimes we criticize people who don't make it. We say they only blame everyone else, that they don't look for reasons within themselves and only look for objective causes. Actually, a lot of the time, objective circumstances have a very big role to play.
The Author Bao'erji Yuanye wrote in an essay: "Sometimes beautiful things don't have beautiful qualities. They're actually quite ordinary and just happen to be in a beautiful place." The good location completes them, which shows how important positioning is. To put it another way, some things with beautiful qualities might never be recognized, if they haven't been placed in a beautiful location. Like that bouquet in the living room, or my student in this little town.
When your surrounding circumstances become fetters and handcuffs, you might as well take off, change your surroundings. Maybe you'll find the perfect location for a bright new vista on your life.
•Reporter: Do you know why your employees call you "boss"?
Boss: Because I give them wages.
Reporter: No, because you always boss them around with a scowl on your face.
•Reporter: Why do you always like it when your employees put in extra hours?
Boss: For the same reason employees clamor for pay raises.
•Reporter: You say your company is a fairly united, fairly cohesive unit. Can you cite a comparatively typical example?
Boss: Almost every day we put in extra hours as a unit. All personnel must participate. I don't know whether this example is typical enough.
•Reporter: It's said your employees have to live in the office to put in the extra time to get their jobs done. What's your opinion about this?
Boss: This shows completely the boundless love our employees have for the company. They see the company as their home.
•Reporter: Some say you're a person who habitually makes empty promises. When your company was just getting started, you promised to go public within five years. Now, after more than twenty years, you can't say you've delivered on your promise. Do you have anything you'd like to say on this point?
Boss: I'm a man of his word, and a man who gets results. I don't know who would have the ulterior motives to slander me. I can take full responsibly for telling you, in the fourth year after the company was founded, we moved from a small town to the city. Isn't that "going to the public"?
•Reporter: May I ask, in terms of area, what is the largest group activity organized by your company?
Boss: Our company-wide staff meetings.
•Reporter: Everyone says you've never been very reliable about paying wages. Not only is the amount unreliable, and always too low rather than too high; the time is unreliable, too, and always late rather than early. May I ask why that is?
Boss: It's because our company's "corporate situation" is rather special. Most of the staff are "henpecked" male employees. In order to protect their vital interests, I don't let the amount or pay time of their wages be laid bare naked to the discerning eyes of their dependents. Lest the total sum suffer the tragic fate of confiscation, I go ahead and sacrifice my reputation by using the tactics of obfuscation, which allows the employees to retain some small shreds of their entirely valuable banknotes.
•Reporter: From what I've learned, you have a unique ability to prophesy the future.
Boss: Where did you hear that?
•Reporter: From employees of your company who jumped ship to go to other companies.
•Reporter: They said that when they submitted their letters of resignation, you made a prediction: that they shouldn't expect to get higher incomes or lighter workloads by jumping to another company. They now tell me that what you said was right. What I'd like to know is, how could you make such an accurate prediction?
Boss: All crows are equally black. Any fool knows that. They were the only ones who didn't.
•Reporter: You once made a solemn commitment to the whole company that you would make the company relatively influential. May I ask, have you done it?
Boss: We're on CCTV's "Investigative Reports". You tell me, is that influential?
•Reporter: It looks like your company's really hot. Can you tell me what great feat you did to get on CCTV?
Boss: We really are on fire. Last year there was a big enough blaze to burn up one of our subsidiaries, and also get us burned on CCTV as well.
Gao Wu thought that was even more unlikely. Foreign car names are long and hard to remember. He was a student at an established university and even he didn't know them all, so how could Old Wang, the garbage truck driver? He pulled on his son to leave and was surprised when his son took the old man seriously. Little Jun pulled out paper and pen and began asking Old Wang questions. Gao Wu took another look at Old Wang. He wasn't hesitant; he took up his pen and "swish, swish, swish" wrote for some time. Gao Wu was curious and craned his neck to look. Good Lord! It really was genuine English, ten-plus words in a long row, all top-level luxury car brands. Old Wang just kept on writing, never even having to stop to make a correction.
Woody was a rather slow fellow. He had spent four years in grade school, and all four were in the first grade. The reason was that, by nature, he was not cut out to be a student.
When he was about to turn 40, Woody decided to take the driver license test. But here he suffered for his lack of education, because the questions on the legal knowledge portion of the test were asked and answered in writing on a computer. He couldn't even read the questions generated on the screen, let alone answer them. Thus he took the test three times without passing.
The only thing Woody could do was to have a friend of a friend, on the sly, ask the proctor for the written test to help him out.
The proctor told Woody all he had to do when he sat for the test was push the mouse around like he was answering the questions. He absolutely must not actually click on any of the answers. The proctor would take care of it from the back of the room. Woody listened and nodded his head as though he understood, but in fact he didn't.
Soon the day for the test came around. The proctor who had agreed to help him winked at Woody when he entered the room. Woody naturally understood that. He took a number and found his assigned seat. After a bit the other candidates entered the room, one after another, and sat upright in front of their computers.
When he finished speaking the proctor went to the computer control booth at the back of the examination room. The control booth was separated from the exam room by a clear glass window. When Woody turned his head, he saw the proctor smiling at him through the glass and felt even more confident. He sat straight up in front of the computer, eyes on the screen, pushing the mouse around with his hand. It was completely silent in the exam hall. One could barely hear the "click, click" of the other candidates using their mice to answer questions.
The other candidates were startled by Woody's shout. All eyes were fixed on him.


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Frans De Mulder (Kruishoutem, 14 de desembre de 1937 - Deinze, 5 de març de 2001) va ser un ciclista belga que fou professional entre 1958 i 1963. Era el germà petit de Marcel De Mulder.

El seu èxit més destacat fou la victòria final a la Volta a Espanya de 1960, en la qual també aconseguí el triomf en quatre etapes. Amb aquest triomf és el segon ciclista més jove en guanyar la Volta a Espanya, sols superat pel primer vencedor de la cursa, el també belga Gustaaf Deloor. Aquell mateix any guanyà el Campionat nacional en ruta.

Palmarès
 1957
 Vencedor d'una etapa a la Volta a Bèlgica amateur
 1958
  Campió de Bèlgica de la categoria independents
 1r a Kortrijk
 Vencedor d'una etapa de la Volta a l'Oest de Flandes
 Vencedor d'una etapa a la Volta a Limburg amateur
 1959
 1r a Handzame
 1960
  Campió de Bèlgica en ruta
  1r de la Volta a Espanya i vencedor de 4 etapes
 1r a Baasrode
 1r a Heusden O-Vlaanderen
 1r a Kruishoutem
 1r a Beernem
 Vencedor d'una etapa a la Volta a Luxemburg
 1961
 1r al Campionat de Flandes
 1r a Aniche
 1r a l'Anvers-Gant
 1r a Zulte
 1r al Gran Premi de la Basse-Sambre
 1r a Ingelmunster
 1962
 1r a Mouscron
 1r a Knokke
 1r al Critèrium de Zingem
 1r a Jambes
 Vencedor d'una etapa al Critèrium del Dauphiné Libéré
 1963
 1r a la Nokere Koerse
 Vencedor d'una etapa a la Volta a Bèlgica

Resultats a la Volta a Espanya
 1960. 1r de la classificació general. Vencedor de 4 etapes
 1961. Abandona

Resultats al Tour de França
 1962. Abandona (14a etapa)

Referències

Enllaços externs
 Palmarès de Frans Demulder

Guanyadors de la Volta a Espanya
Ciclistes de Flandes Oriental
Morts a Flandes


Now that your little one is off breast milk or formula, making sure she or he is receiving all the proper nutrients takes a little bit more thought. Ensuring proper nutrition for kids doesn't have to be complicated – their needs are pretty much the same as yours, just in smaller portions. Also, feeding a toddler a well-balanced diet will help establish healthy eating habits early on. Feeding your toddler a variety of foods from all the food groups will help instill the need to make the right food choices when they get older.
By the time your child is two, she or he will be eating mainly solid foods. To figure out how many calories your child needs everyday, just use this simple equation: for every inch of their height, your child should consume 40 calories. So, if your daughter is 35 inches tall, then she needs 1400 calories each day.
Not all calories are the same, though. Therefore, it is recommended that the largest amount of calories come from dairy products, about 40% of the total number of calories. Grains and protein products should account for about 20% each, while fruits and vegetables should make up the remaining 20% of your child's caloric intake. Also, 30% of your toddler's calories should come from fat (they need that fat to feed their endless stores of energy).
Even though dairy products consume the most calories, it is in fact grains that your child should receive the most servings of. Up to six servings a day of grains is recommended. Your toddler will also need four servings a day of dairy products as well as an additional four servings of fruit and vegetable products.
Protein packed foods should show up two to three times a day in your little one's meals. But remember, these servings are not adult-sized portions. In fact, a serving for a child is anywhere from a quarter to half of an adult serving. Your two-year-old won't be able to finish off that 12-ounce steak for a few more years, so just give him a little three-ounce piece for now.
Also, keep in mind that your child's appetite will change from day to day. Some days she may just eat a few things while the next day she just keeps asking for more. It's all perfectly normal. Her appetite will probably also increase when she is going through a growth spurt.
There are a number of nutrients that all toddlers need to ensure their healthy development. Iron is a big one since this helps to promote their brain growth. By your child's two-year birthday, she or he will need to have about 10mg a day. Iron received from meat is the easiest source for your child's body to absorb. Iron is also found in grain and vegetables products but this iron isn't absorbed as effortlessly. It's a good idea to serve these items with a source of vitamin C to help make absorption less difficult for the body. Three ounces of steak or hamburger contain about 2 mg of iron while three ounces of chicken will have almost 1mg. One egg has .6mg of iron.
Zinc is another important nutrient that helps promote healthy growth in your children. Your toddler will need about 10mg of zinc everyday. Some foods that are good sources of zinc include baked beans and ricotta cheese (both have 2mg in a half cup serving), steak and hamburger (a three-ounce serving of either meat contains between 4 and 6mg), and pecans (a quarter cup contains 1mg).
Vitamin D is an essential nutrient to help with calcium absorption. About 200IUs is the recommended daily intake for toddlers, which can easily be gotten from salmon (three ounces has 155IUs), one cup of milk (98IUs) or a slice of cheese (69IUs).
Vitamin A is another important nutrient for your child's healthy development. This vitamin is responsible for protecting against infections, improving the condition of hair, skin and nails and helping eyesight. While vitamin A can be received from a variety of sources, getting too much from meat can result in health problems.
However, vitamin A derived from vegetables poses no problems as the vitamin comes from carotenoids. Your toddler will need about 400 micrograms each day. Some great sources of vitamin A include carrots (one raw medium carrot has 2000mcg!), red bell peppers (a half pepper has 339mcg) and eggs (84mcg).
One of the most wondrous vitamins out there is vitamin C. Just a few of the things this vitamin is responsible for include boosting the immune system, repairing red blood cells, helping gums stay healthy, and making it easier for the body to absorb iron. Even though your toddler needs between 15 and 40mg every day, vitamin C is incredibly easy to get. A half-cup of red bell peppers has 142mg while one cup of orange juice has 100mg. Other good sources include one medium orange (70mg), a half-cup of broccoli (62mg), and strawberries (5 contain 51mg).
Having all these guidelines and daily requirements to meet can seem overwhelming, but it doesn't have to be. The easiest way to meet these requirements is by simply serving your toddler a well-balanced meal that has a little bit of each food group at every meal. Read about the importance of serving healthy meals to your toddler.


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Фридрих Карл Йозеф фон Валдбург-Волфег-Валдзее (; * 13 август 1808, Валзее; † 22 април 1871, Волфег) е имперски наследствен трушес, 2. княз на Валдбург-Волфег-Валдзее и императорски герб-кемерер, племенен господар, член на камерата в Кралство Вюртемберг.

Произход
Той е син (15-о дете) на имперския наследствен трушес, 1. княз Йозеф Антон фон Валдбург-Волфег-Валдзее (1766 – 1833) и съпругата му графиня Мария Йозефа Кресценция Валбурга Катарина Аделхайдис Фугер фон Бабенхаузен (* 2 август 1770, Бабенхаузен; † 27 декември 1848, Валдзее), дъщеря на граф Анселм Викториан Фугер фон Кирхберг-Вайсенхорн (1729 – 1793) и имперската наследствена тушеса фрайин и графиня Мария Валпургис Габриела Тереза Каролина Евсебия фон Валдбург-Волфег (1740 – 1796), дъщеря на граф Йозеф Франц Леодегар Антон Евузебиус фон Валдбург-Волфег (1704 – 1774) и алтграфиня Анна Мария Луиза Шарлота фон Залм-Райфершайт-Дик (1712 – 1760).

Фамилия
Фридрих Карл Йозеф фон Валдбург-Волфег-Валдзее се жени на 9 октомври 1832 г. в Аулендорф за графиня Елизабет фон Кьонигсег-Аулендорф (* 14 април 1812, Будапеща; † 29 май 1886, дворец Цайл), дъщеря на граф Франц Ксавер фон Кьонигсег-Аулендорф (1787 – 1863) и графиня Мария Анна Наги-Кароли (1793 – 1848). Те имат пет деца:
 Франц Ксавер Йозеф Фридрих (* 11 септември 1833, Волфег; † 14 декември 1906, Волфег), имперски наследствен трушес, 3. княз на Валдбург-Волфег-Валдзее, женен в Мюнхен на 19 април 1860 г. за графиня София Леополдина Лудовика фон Арко-Цинеберг (* 14 ноември 1836, дворец Цайл; † 21 декември 1909, Волфег)
 Мария Анна Антония Евсебия (* 22 юли 1834; † 27 ноември 1834)
 Август Йозеф Фридрих Вилхелм Вилибалд (* 7 юли 1838, Волфег; † 11 август 1896, Волфег), граф
 Мария Анна Йозефа Валпурга Елизабет (* 20 април 1840, Волфег; † 11 май 1885, Цайл), омъжена във Волфег на 24 февруари 1862 г. за 4. княз Вилхелм фон Валдбург-Цайл-Траухбург (* 26 ноември 1835; † 20 юли 1906)
 Гебхард Йозеф Фридрих Йохан Баптист (* 17 септември 1841, Волфег; † 2 август 1912, Волфег), граф, кралски майор на Вюртемберг

Галерия

Литература
 Frank Raberg: Biographisches Handbuch der württembergischen Landtagsabgeordneten 1815 – 1933. Im Auftrag der Kommission für geschichtliche Landeskunde in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2, S. 971.
 Constantin von Wurzbach: Waldburg, das reichsgräfliche Geschlecht, Genealogie. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich. 52. Theil. Kaiserlich-königliche Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, Wien 1885, S. 168
 Constantin von Wurzbach: Waldburg, das reichsgräfliche Geschlecht, Heiraten. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich. 52. Theil. Kaiserlich-königliche Hof-und Staatsdruckerei, Wien 1885, S. 169 (Digitalisat).
 Joseph Vochezer: Geschichte des fuerstlichen Hauses Waldburg in Schwaben, 1888, Bd. 1, S. 379 – 496
 Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels: Adelslexikon. Band XII, Band 125 der Gesamtreihe, S. 281 – 285, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2001, ISSN 0435 – 2408.
 ~Europäische Stammtafeln, J.A. Stargardt Verlag, Marburg, Schwennicke, Detlev (Ed.). 5:156
 ~Die nachkommen meiner Urgrosseltern, 1985, Druck-Verlag Walter Sauter 7964 Kisslegg, Allgau, Waldburg-Wolfegg, Franz Ludwig Fürst zu. 11

Източници

Външни препратки

 Waldburg, angelfire.com
 Genealogie von Waldburg
 Regnal Chronologies
 Das Haus Waldburg, "Online Gotha", angelfire.com
 Die Waldburger , gzg.fn.bw.schule.de

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Q: MySQL Workbench don't show the result grid when I execute a script When I execute a script, MySQL Workbench don't show up the result grid for me to view all records. Like a below picture:
My MySQL Workbench is in version 6.3.9.
MySQL Workbench
MySQL Workbench of my friends can show like this:
My friend's MySQL Workbench
Please help me !

A: UPDATE: Mysqlworkbench 6.3.10 has been released. If you have this problem, you should get the official update.
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Looks like this is a known bug in MySQL Workbench on High Sierra, the latest Mac OS.
It is fixed in the next version 6.3.10, but as of 10/17/17 that isn't available.
See the bug report here:
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=87714
From the bug report, there is a user build that addresses the issue:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B2fTesDcrHzVRGVFWEdILWpuaEE?usp=sharing

A: After executing the query that you want (ex: SELECT * FROM table) execute the EXPLAIN command

It will open a new panel and on the right side you can find the option to open the Result Grid.

A: I had the same issue and restart of the program helped me on  Mysql workbench 8.0 CE

A: I encountered this issue as well. In my case since I don't have internet on my house, I will enter my workaround as answer (just in case others have the same scenario as mine). My workaround is to close and re-open the MySQL Workbench as my workaround to fix the issue.
I Agree to Garr Godfrey since it is a known bug, you need to update your workbench. Updating the MySQL Workbench will permanently fix this issue. :)

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You are here: Home / Food Safety / Utah's Ag-Gag Law Struck Down
Utah's Ag-Gag Law Struck Down
September 21, 2017 by News Desk
An ag-gag law in Utah has been struck down. Earlier this month, the Utah attorney general said that no appeal would be filed in a federal court decision to end the law as unconstitutional.
These laws criminalize video recording on ranches and farms that expose animal abuse. Members of animal rights groups pose as workers to film cruelty against animals. University of Denver law professor Justin Marceau, one of the attorneys who represents animal rights groups said, "[Ag-gag] laws in states like Iowa and Kansas are crying out for a challenge at this point."
The state that have some type of this law on the books include Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, North Carolina and Alabama. Animal rights advocates say that these laws violate free speech and target whistleblowers. They also undermine food safety, since animals living in crowded and filthy conditions are more likely to develop illness.
Stephen Wells, executive director of the Animal Legal Defense Fund said in a statement, "Utah's decision not to appeal its loss is a signal to other states that these unconstitutional Ag-gag laws are indefensible. Should Utah's legislature try to pass a new Ag-gag law to replace the last one, we'll see them back in court."
The Humane Society says that ag-gag laws are "a threat to public health, animal welfare, and the environment." In 2008, an HSUS investigation found that a California slaughter plant, Hallmark/Westland meat plant, was sending sick downer cattle into the country's food supply. If ag-gag laws had been in effect at that time, children could have been exposed to mad cow disease. In addition, insanitary living conditions for food animals can lead to disease that could be transmitted to humans.
Many ag-gag laws are "quick reporting", which means that investigators must turn over footage immediately. That stops investigators from documenting a pattern of abuse.
Many advocates believe that undercover operations expose unsanitary conditions that could lead to food poisoning outbreaks. And, environmental violations can have an affect on food safety. Manure storage lagoons can leach into the groundwater, potentially contaminating the water supply, or can contaminate crops. Organizations that are opposed to these laws include Center for Food Safety, Farm Forward, Food & Water Watch, and Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
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